Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series, Volume XIII
Overview
This edition of Phillip Schaff’s Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers includes works by Gregory the Great, Ephrem the Syrian, and Aphrahat.
Product Details
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series, Volume XIII
- Author: Phillip Schaff
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Publication Date: 1888
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“In this day in which the Rich became poor for our sakes, let the rich man make the poor man share with him at his table. On this day to us came forth the Gift, although we asked it not! Let us therefore bestow alms on them that cry and beg of us. This is the day that opened for us a gate on high to our prayers. Let us open also gates to supplicants that have transgressed, and of us have asked [forgiveness.] To-day the Lord of nature was against His nature changed; let it not to us be irksome to turn our evil wills. Fixed in nature is the body; great or less it cannot become: but the will has such dominion, it can grow to any measure. To-day Godhead sealed itself upon Manhood, that so with the Godhead’s stamp Manhood might be adorned.” (Page 226)
“Sin had spread its wings, and covered all things,—that none could discern, of himself or from above, the truth.—Truth came down into the womb, came forth and rolled away error.” (Page 253)
“Blessed be that Child, Who gladdened Bethlehem to-day! Blessed be the Babe Who made manhood young again to-day! Blessed be the Fruit, Who lowered Himself to our famished state! Blessed be the Good One, Who suddenly enriched our necessitousness and supplied our needs! Blessed He Whose tender mercies made Him condescend to visit our infirmities!” (Page 227)
“In the winter which strips the fruit of the branches off from the barren vine, Fruit sprang up1 unto us; in the cold that bares all the trees, a shoot was green for us of the house of Jesse. In December2 when the seed is hidden in the earth, there sprouted forth from the Womb the Ear of Life.” (Page 230)
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.13: Gregory the Great (Part II), Ephraim Syrus, Aphrahat
- Authors: Philip Schaff, Henry Wace, Saint Gregory the Great, Ephrem the Syrian, Aphrahat
- Series: Early Church Fathers (Protestant Edition)
- Volume: 13
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Print Publication Date: 1898
- Logos Release Date: 2001
- Era: era:byzantine
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian literature, early; Fathers of the church
- Resource ID: LLS:6.60.27
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T16:49:40Z